Zichao Yang (杨子超)
Assistant Professor, Wenlan School of Business, ZUEL
E-Mail: yang_zichao A-T outlook.com
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Current Research Interests
Deep Learning, Cryptocurrencies, Macroeconomics
Working Papers
Agree to Disagree: Measuring Hidden Dissents in FOMC Meetings(August 2023, with Kwok Ping Tsang), Update: November 2024, Under Review
Judicial Institution and Innovation: Evidence from China’s Intellectual Property Courts Reform (September 2024, with Liyang Wan, Qian Wan and Ying Zhao), R&R, Journal of Development Economics
The Impact of Stay-at-Home Orders on US Output: A Network Perspective (April 2020, with Shaowen Luo and Kwok Ping Tsang)
Publications
ESG Rating Disagreement and Corporate Total Factor Productivity: Inference and Prediction, Zhanli Li & Zichao Yang (2025), Finance Research Letters
Do Connections Pay Off in the Bitcoin Market?, Kwok Ping Tsang & Zichao Yang (2022) , Journal of Empirical Finance
The Market For Bitcoin Transactions, Kwok Ping Tsang & Zichao Yang (2021) , Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
Price Dispersion in Bitcoin Exchanges, Kwok Ping Tsang & Zichao Yang (2020) , Economics Letters
Selected Works in Progress
- Deanonymize Bitcoin Transactions, with Kwok Ping Tsang
- A Very English Phenomenon: Competition in the International Labor Market, with Xinquan Zhao
- Written in the Blockchain: The Anatomy of Deccentralized Betting Markets, with Kwok Ping Tsang
Teaching
Instructor, ZUEL
- Undergrad Courses
- Machine Learning in Finance (Spring 2024, 2025)
- Blockchain and Digital Money (Fall 2024)
- Financial Markets (Fall 2022, 2023, 2024)
- Introduction to the Digital Economy (Spring 2024, 2025, Co-Instructor)
- Grad Courses
- Machine Learning in Economics (Fall 2023, 2024)
- International Finance (Fall 2022, 2023)
- Frontier of Technology and Economics II (Spring 2022)
- Workshop Session
Instructor, VT
- ECON2006 Principles of Macroeconomics (Fall 2020, Winter 2020)
- ECON2005 Principles of Microeconomics (Spring 2020)